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Article: Extraterritorial Publication and American Missionary Authority about the ‘Opium War’: Contesting the Eloquence and Reciprocity of John Quincy Adams’s ‘Lecture on the War with China’

TitleExtraterritorial Publication and American Missionary Authority about the ‘Opium War’: Contesting the Eloquence and Reciprocity of John Quincy Adams’s ‘Lecture on the War with China’
Authors
KeywordsMissionary printing
First Opium War
free trade
international law
Issue Date2020
PublisherSage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/literature-history/journal202521
Citation
Literature & History, 2020, v. 29 n. 1, p. 37-59 How to Cite?
AbstractThe US missionaries Elijah Bridgman and Samuel Wells Williams leveraged authority from extraterritorial printing in South China to rebut the oratorical eloquence of ex-President John Quincy Adams on the First Opium War. They did this by editing Adams’s ‘Lecture on the War with China’ (1841) for The Chinese Repository that they published monthly from Guangzhou, Macao, and Hong Kong. Adams presents the British as righteous Christians defending ‘free trade’ from pagan China. The missionaries’ editorial strategies challenged Adams on points of fact to signal disagreement with him over the moral implications of opium smuggling and China’s status under international law.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/286044
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 0.2
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.104
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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, KA-
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-31T06:58:17Z-
dc.date.available2020-08-31T06:58:17Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationLiterature & History, 2020, v. 29 n. 1, p. 37-59-
dc.identifier.issn0306-1973-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/286044-
dc.description.abstractThe US missionaries Elijah Bridgman and Samuel Wells Williams leveraged authority from extraterritorial printing in South China to rebut the oratorical eloquence of ex-President John Quincy Adams on the First Opium War. They did this by editing Adams’s ‘Lecture on the War with China’ (1841) for The Chinese Repository that they published monthly from Guangzhou, Macao, and Hong Kong. Adams presents the British as righteous Christians defending ‘free trade’ from pagan China. The missionaries’ editorial strategies challenged Adams on points of fact to signal disagreement with him over the moral implications of opium smuggling and China’s status under international law.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/literature-history/journal202521-
dc.relation.ispartofLiterature & History-
dc.rightsLiterature & History. Copyright © Sage Publications Ltd.-
dc.subjectMissionary printing-
dc.subjectFirst Opium War-
dc.subjectfree trade-
dc.subjectinternational law-
dc.titleExtraterritorial Publication and American Missionary Authority about the ‘Opium War’: Contesting the Eloquence and Reciprocity of John Quincy Adams’s ‘Lecture on the War with China’-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0306197320907452-
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dc.identifier.volume29-
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